IMIS Solutions for assessing instruments' health from anywhere

摘要

Since the advent of mobile technologies (laptops, smartphones and tablets) as well as the worldwide deployment of broadband networks (3G, Wi-Fi hotspots), the demand for accessing the satellite operations centers from outside has increased. Until now, very few means to carry out this demand have been set-up at CNES. As part of the MSL mission (Mars Science Laboratory), one of the strong requirements of the CNES operations center for the ChemCam and SAM instruments (the French contributions to MSL instruments) was to enable users outside the operations center, but of course with sufficient privileges, to assess the instruments' health. CNES then implemented new software solutions named IMIS (Instrument Monitoring Interactive Software) which provide all features necessary to monitor the payload instruments from anywhere. In addition to a desktop client application, IMIS also provides an Android application mainly designed for on-call operations.